Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-06-03
Prohibition Resolutions.
At the Prohibition Convention IN
Butler last Thursday the following
resolutions were adopted:
THE RESOLUTIONS

THE RESOLUTIONS.
The Prohibition party of Butler
county, Pa, By its delegates in con-
veution assembled, submits the fol,
lowing declaration of principles
|. We reverently acknowledge AL.
mighty God Is the source OF all
power and authority in civil govern
ment and humbly invoke his aid IN
our struggle with the drink traffic
We acknowledge the Lord Jesus
Christ as the ruler Of nations, and the
revealed vii! of God as the standard
10 which all laws of human enact
ment should conform as an absolute
requisite; TO peace, prosperity and
happiness =.
2 We humbly express our graft
tude to God for the progress thus far
made in the cause of temperance re-
form; for the marked growth in pub
lie sentiment, the awakening OF the
public conscience and the ever in
creasing number of the advocates OF
the cause Of Prohibition.
3 We declare that the liquor traf-
fic is the source of poverty, crime and
misery, the foe of industry, the de-
stroyer of private and public virtue,
the great fountain ct political corrup
ton, the parent CT sediticn, anarchy,
vice and social and industrial dis
order. This traffic is sanctioned and
protected by law, and its suppression
has become the supreme political as
we'll as moral issue Of the day.
4. We believe that neither OF the
old political parties, dependent as both
of them are upon the saloon vote for
their supremacy, are competent to
grapple effectively with the liquor
traffic. For either of them to honest
ly undertake to overthrow the saloon
would be party suicide.
5 We believe that the liquor traffic
is too strongly entrenched to be de-
stroyed by human power less than
the determined will Of majority OF
the voters of the Commonwealth and
Nation organized into q political
party and acting together for this end
We believe that prohibition to be
radically and completely effectual
must extend to the whole Nation and
be supported by a party uncondition-
ally committed to its procurement
and enforcement.
6. We believe that the Prohibition
party is the only party which gives
the Christian citizen the opportunity
Of expressing at the ballot box bis
sentiments in reference to the liquor
traffic. We beiieve it is the only
party which gives the citizen the op-
portunity of voting for public officers
entirely free from ali completely with
the liquor business and which re-
moves from the voter all moral re-
sponsibility for the evil which it in
nicts; and is the only party willing
to suffer defeat in the defense Of pro-
hibition or to triumph with its sue
cesa; therefore
Resolved, l. That we reaffirm our
allegiance to the National prohibition
party as the only party whose plat
form and candidates stand for the abb
solrte constitutional and legislative
prohibition of the manufact ure, impor-
tation, transportation and sale of all
Intoxicating beverages.
Resolved, 2. That while we rec
ognize the right to liberty of consci-
ence we cannot forbear the logical
necessity of holding that those who
vote with license parties are accessor-
ies to the crimes of the legalized
liquor traffic and are jointly response
BILE for the evils resulting therefrom
We affirm that all who license or in
any way favor the continuance OF this
traffic, and all Legislatures which Ii
cense; and all political parties which
favor license, and all men who vote
for parties which license, do make
themselves accessory 70 the liquor
crime, and equally guilty with the
man who carries oD the traffic.
Resolved, 3 That believing in the
Christian Sabbath as ar indispensable
safeguard of our Christian instita-
tions, we demand the strict enforce
ment of all laws against it's desecra-
ton, and hold in adherence, as in-
imical TO the best interest of society,
the efforts of the rum power to secu-
larize the day in open violation of the
laws of the land.
Resolved, 4. That we heartily in.
dorse the work of the w G TU. az q
power OF good in this State aud Ma
ton; and hope for the sake of our
common cause, that the time is not
far distant when the County and
State organizations will join with the
National in affiliations with the only
political party that stands for the
principles which they 80 zealously ad-
vocate.
Resolved 5. That we imperatively
demand the statutory end constitu-
tional prohibition Of the manufacture.
sale and importation of, and all traffic
whatsoever in intoxicating liquors as
o beverage.
RESOLVED 6. That we protest
against and denounce the high license
law recently enacted by our State leg
islature, as an insult to the enlighten-
ed temperance sentiment of this Com
mon wealth. We have asked for bread
and thev rave us O. stone. for O. fish
and they gave Us serpent We
have asked for the immediate destruc-
tion Of the saloon, and they gave us o
law to establish it more firmly and
perpetuate it among US. We have
asked for prohibition and they gave
us a license law which contains near
Iy all the worst features Of the old
law and embraces in addition the pc
cuiiar and delusive feature OF high IL
cense, which, while it may diminish
to some extent the number of saloons,
will not, as has been abundantly
proven by experience, lessen drunken
ness, or diminish in the least the evils
resulting from the drink traffic We
also object to and protest against the
clause which requires that signers Of
remonstrances be residents of the
ward, borough or township for which
the license is sought, thereby prevent
ing residents Of adjoining districts
who have business and social inter
ests 10 the said ward, borough or